Connecting Leaders: - and Vice Principals

FRIDAY BREAKOUTSThe Engaging Administrator: How to Use Web 2.0 Tools toMake Day-to-Day Operations More Engaging for Your StaffFRIDAYBREAKOUTSession Description:Do you like when a presenter tells you to power off your laptop, tablet andsmartphone off while they are speaking? Do you enjoy sitting through longand boring meetings? Do you look forward to sifting through paper surveys,collating data, and creating graphs? Do you get fired up about writing andpresenting School Improvement Plans? Do you appreciate one-way, didactic, lecture-style professionaldevelopment sessions? If you answered YES to any of these questions, this interactive session is NOT foryou. By using various Web 2.0 tools, we can gather meaningful input from students, staff, and parents,we can create engaging and relevant staff meetings, and we can engage all stakeholders in writing acollaborative and dynamic School Improvement Plan that can actually be used to educate and model21st century skills. By the end of the session, participants will have been exposed to: setting up a blog,creating collaborative staff meeting agendas, creating online surveys for student, staff and parent input,and to collaborative tools using Google Documents. This session is designed for new technology usersand digital natives. Laptops, tablets and smartphones will make this session more interactive, but arenot required.Presented by:Cale Birk is the Principal of South Kamloops Secondary School, a large dual-track high schoolin Kamloops. He has presented numerous topics including Implementing Professional LearningCommunities, Restructuring Schools For Student Success, Parental Involvement, the BCPVPA SupervisionFor Learning series and now The Engaging Administrator. He is passionate about effective assessment,collaboration, and the use of social media as a tool to engage learners. An avid user of social media,Cale currently publishes The Learning Nation (www.thelearningnation.blogspot.com), and has been acontributor to the North American Association of Secondary Principals (NAASP) Bulletin.You can follow Cale on Twitter (@birklearns).Making Innovation Happen: How to generate and harness new solutions,reimagine schooling and radically improve student learningFRIDAYBREAKOUTAre you ready to build an innovation workplace culture in your school? Are youlooking to exploit the opportunities that new models may provide for studentengagement and deep learning? This strategy-rich workshop will equip you to:Generate a compelling vision, challenge the status quo and set an innovationagenda; Build a creative culture that cultivates innovation, embraces diversity,facilitates interdisciplinary thinking and scales-up best practice; Apply the process of design-led innovation tosolve specific learning challenges in your context; De-risk failure, and adopt a rapid prototyping approach totesting new ideas; Move beyond theory with an approach that is grounded in the real change that you are aimingto lead in your school or system; Develop a bias towards action, take intelligent risks and embrace permanent‘beta mode.’Presented by:Simon Breakspear our Friday morning keynote speaker (see previous page).Connecting Leaders: Beyond Innovation & Change